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Posted On: October 5th 2021, 07:14 pm
Squid Game, a Korean-language drama set to become Netflix's most successful orginal series, has "botched" subtitles which changes the show's meaning, according to a TikTok user.
Youngmi Mayer, fluent in Korean, claimed on Twitter, "if you don’t understand Korean, you didn’t really watch the same show".
The show details an alternative world where deadly survival games are played by people in debt. If they lose, they die.
"Translation was so bad. The dialogue was written so well and zero of it was preserved," said Youngmi Mayer.
Youngmi Mayer has detailed examples of the mistranslation in a TikTok video with almost nine million views.
However, several people have noticed her comments are in reference to the closed-caption subtitles rather than the English language subtitles.
People who are hard of hearing often opt for closed captions, which are usually automatically generated.
Youngmi Mayer, fluent in Korean, claimed on Twitter, "if you don’t understand Korean, you didn’t really watch the same show".
The show details an alternative world where deadly survival games are played by people in debt. If they lose, they die.
"Translation was so bad. The dialogue was written so well and zero of it was preserved," said Youngmi Mayer.
Youngmi Mayer has detailed examples of the mistranslation in a TikTok video with almost nine million views.
However, several people have noticed her comments are in reference to the closed-caption subtitles rather than the English language subtitles.
People who are hard of hearing often opt for closed captions, which are usually automatically generated.
Comments (43)
5 years agotessamarydorhout
Subtitles are notoriously incorrect in every language Korean is no exception
5 years agonellybobadams
I don't think we really need clarification of that comment to highlight the wealth disparity shown in the show. It's quite clear as it is.
5 years agoitsalltoplayfor
@cploveskdhdcdnd this is interesting and hideous. 'CC subtitles are usually automatically generated'... I had no idea. So anyone hard of hearing/deaf gets a crap flat translation of something that was meant to be more rich and nuanced!
5 years agoseguro_siempre_pasa_algo
The Spanish from Spain translation, as all Spanish translations are great, but they are really good professionals, as always.
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